Key Texts in Human Geography

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qA book that will delight studentsab Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject's landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation... The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines throughab It will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts.q - THE Textbook Guide qWill surely become a akey texta itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals.q - Professor James Sidaway, University of Plymouth 'An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core.q - Barney Warf, Florida State University Undergraduate geography students are often directed to 'key' texts in the literature but find them difficult to read because of their language and argument. As a result, they fail to get to grips with the subject matter and gravitate towards course textbooks instead. Key Texts in Human Geography serves as a primer and companion to the key texts in human geography published over the past 40 years. It is not a reader, but a volume of 26 interpretive essays highlighting: the significance of the text how the book should be read reactions and controversies surrounding the book the book's long-term legacy. It is an essential reference guide for all students of human geography and provides an invaluable interpretive tool in answering questions about human geography and what constitutes geographical knowledge.Moreover, it is neither a conventional monograph with a beginning, middle and
end, nor a book of essays. ... In this chapter I aim to provide readers an entry into
the text and an understanding of why this text has become a key text in human
geography. I begin by giving an overview of the book, describing the
contemporary relevance of the topics addressed in Hybrid Geographies and
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Key Texts in Human Geography

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Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Gill Valentine

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SAGE - 2008-05-19

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